Azur Lane FanFiction

Vacation with Zuikaku

(Pearl Harbor)

True to my word I had taken Zuikaku to Pearl Harbor. When walking we were arm in arm. I was wearing a hula shirt and casual shorts while Zuikaku didn't have the white coat and still had her red dress. The first thing we did was visit some of the filming locations of the two movies "Pearl Harbor" and "Battleship" both directed by Michael Bay.

Then we went to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum where we visited the memorials of the ships that were sunk at Pearl Harbor, the names of the men that died, and the USS Arizona memorial. And we were at the USS Arizona memorial right now. Zuikaku began having flashbacks of launching her planes on that day when she saw the bombs and torpedos used to destroy the Battleship row on display. She even saw a model of a Japanese plane on display above. I was looking at a part of Arizona recovered on display.

Zuikaku: Feeling eased?

Patrick: a little bit... Yes.

Zuikaku: Most of the weapons that were used by me, Shokaku, and my superiors are on display. It's a surprise that they would keep them preserved in here.

Patrick: Pieces of war history have to be preserved for people to learn about the war history. Some of the ships that were sunk were left under the water and later on be turned into memorials. When they were brought back as ship girls they visited their remains and the people who served on them. When I watched the "Pearl Harbor" movie I learned more about WWII history. When I watched "Battleship" I learned about USS Missouri.

Zuikaku: You told me that you first heard of me and some of the others from Sakura Empire from the game and Anime "Kantai Collection" or "Kancolle" for short. You've been getting into the WWII history for a while now. Then you learned about more of it's history when you started playing our game and watching our Anime.

Zuikaku had a look at the ship model of Akagi.

Zuikaku: Whenever any of us sees a small model of ourselves it feels like looking at a small copy of ourselves. Some of our wrecks are still not found yet. Even my wreck hasn't been found yet.

Patrick: It's very dark at the bottom of the oceans so it would be difficult and there no one has launched a search for your wreck yet. But let's continue on.

Zuikaku: Ok.

Later on we went to the USS Missouri.

Patrick: It was a historic moment for Missouri to be moved while Michael Bay was directing and filming "Battleship" on this museum ship. It came out of retirement and defeated the aliens in the movie.

Zuikaku: Even the Sirens are aliens. But humanity was unable to defeat them in short time.

Patrick: Most Anime have depicted aliens unstoppable and after a time skip humanity finds a way to defeat them.

Zuikaku: Including movies too.

Patrick: Back to the subject. This ship was where the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed in Tokyo Bay ending the war. Most ships were unlucky to be preserved as museums and were sold for scrap. Even Enterprise was scrapped. She may be the Lucky E but was not lucky enough to be saved from scrap.

Zuikaku: I don't know what would of happened if I was never sunk. Would I have been scrapped or turned into a museum? But I don't have an answer.

Patrick: USS Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin were preserved because of a lot of reasons. One of them is that Missouri was the ship that ended the war and lived through the other wars then turned into a museum. I once heard that Arizona represented the beginning of WWII in America while Missouri represented the end of WWII in America.